Country Report on Terrorism 2021 - Chapter 4 - Terrorist Safe Havens - Venezuela

Much of Venezuela is ungoverned, undergoverned, or ill governed.  The Maduro regime allows and tolerates the use of its territory by terrorist organizations.  The regime continues to provide safe haven for Foreign Terrorist Organizations, including the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), Segunda Marquetalia, and the Colombian-origin National Liberation Army (ELN).  Financial ties with regime-aligned Segunda Marquetalia, ELN, and Venezuelan paramilitary groups facilitate the public corruption and graft schemes of the regime to include members of the armed forces.  However, Venezuelan security services also have clashed with FARC dissident groups.  Colombian authorities contend that significant numbers of ELN, Segunda Marquetalia, and FARC-EP leaders and members are located in Venezuela.

The government was not known to support or facilitate the proliferation or trafficking of WMD in or through its territory.

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